Biography & History

'This is the eye-popping truth about greed on a JCB scale. Mouthwatering stuff'Griff Rhys Jones, The Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books for Men, The Independent, October 2003 This is the story of the largest corporate take-over in American history. With a stake of $25 billion, the battle for the control... More

"Barbarians at the Gate" is the classic account of the defining takeover in Wall Street merger history. The authors' gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street, in fall of 1988, gives a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.... More

Reveals the secrets of Southwest Airlines' success and describes the unusual and unexpected inner workings of one of America's biggest success stories... More

The chairman and CEO of Starbucks relates how he and his team built a small Seattle company into a nationwide business phenomenon... More

If Google's splashy IPO and skyrocketing stock haven't revived the dotcom sector, they have certainly revived the dotcom hype industry, judging by this adulatory history of the Internet search engine. Billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, their countercultural rectitude imbibed straight f... More

In an account of his rise to the top of the American retail business, the reminiscences of the billionaire retailer are combined with interviews with Walton's family and friends.... More

A widely popular management classic Alfred Sloan’s chronicle of his times with General Motors gives penetrating insights into running an industrial giant such as GM in those times. Dwelling on the various issues he faced and resolved and the structure of the organization Sloan’s book is a guide ... More

For God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the story of Coke is as unique, tasty... More

Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Practices provides an in-depth analysis of the subject in a single volume. The text covers the emergence of the concept of corporate governance, the manner in which it crystallised into a subject of significance, its various problems and issues, its con... More

Written with exclusive and unprecedented access, journalist Symonds brings readers the definitive portrait of the computer company Oracle, and of Larry Ellison--complete with Ellison's own commentary and criticisms on Symonds' reporting.... More

Insightful, probing, and extremely well-written in the genre of business and company profiles, this is as good as it gets.'Kirkus Reviews Drawing on his unmatched expertise in Japanese culture and his unique, unlimited access to Sony's inner sanctum, John Nathan pulls the veil from one of the world'... More

"The Real Thing is a portrait of America's most famous product and the people who transformed it from mere soft drink to symbol of freedom. With fresh insights and a penetrating eye, "New York Times reporter Constance L. Hays examines a century of Coca-Cola history through deft portraits of the char... More

Hailed as the "unofficial GE leadership handbook," this bestseller is a detailed look at how Jack Welch was able to take a venerable and successful old line corporation and transform it into a 21st-century dynamo of innovation.... More

Drawing on two years of unrestricted access to confidential documents and project data, eminent technology-scientists Cusumano and Selby reveal, for the first time, many of Microsoft's innermost secrets. Forty in-depth interviews with employees enabled the authors to identify seven key strategies wh... More

The president and CEO of Scandinavia Airlines details how to restructure an organization so that customer needs take priority, how to best utilize employees who deal directly with customers, and how to increase employee motivation... More